[PDF.80se] Aphrodite and the Rabbis: How the Jews Adapted Roman Culture to Create Judaism as We Know It

Aphrodite and the Rabbis: How the Jews Adapted Roman Culture to Create Judaism as We Know It

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 | #169697 in Books |  St Martin s Press |  2016-09-13 |  2016-09-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .37 x.92 x6.44l,.0 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

 | St Martin s Press

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||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.|By F. Brauer|The book of Rabbi Visotzky, Aphrodite and the Rabbis, is about the profound effect Greco-Roman culture had on the reshaping of Judaism and on the formation of Rabbinate - the Jewish clergy.

Brought on the tips of Macedonian swords, Hellenism spread like fire through the lands of defeated Persian Empire. The technological| ||"Visotzky’s witty narrative takes the reader on a tour of rabbinic legends, discussion of values, art and architecture (illustrated with photographs from archaeological finds) in its attempt to claim that Judaism is a thoroughly western religion." ―Co

Hard to believe but true:

- The Passover Seder is a Greco-Roman symposium banquet
- The Talmud rabbis presented themselves as Stoic philosophers
- Synagogue buildings were Roman basilicas
- Hellenistic rhetoric professors educated sons of well-to-do Jews
- Zeus-Helios is depicted in synagogue mosaics across ancient Israel
- The Jewish courts were named after the Roman political institution, the Sanhedrin
- In Israel there were synagogues where ...

You easily download any file type for your device.Aphrodite and the Rabbis: How the Jews Adapted Roman Culture to Create Judaism as We Know It   |  Burton L. Visotzky. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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